Driver
7,817 active US providers register Driver as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.08% of every provider in the registry, and the 154th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 172A00000X
- Grouping
- Other Service Providers
- Classification
- Driver
- Active providers
- 7,817
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
A person employed to operate a motor vehicle as a carrier of persons or property.
Definition quoted verbatim from the NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, version 25.1. Not paraphrased.
Where they are
Counted by practice location, not by mailing address or by licence state. A provider practising across a state line is counted where they practise.
| State | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 1,110 | |
| California | 794 | |
| Virginia | 659 | |
| Texas | 506 | |
| Florida | 477 | |
| Louisiana | 375 | |
| Illinois | 300 | |
| Georgia | 285 | |
| North Carolina | 278 | |
| New York | 274 | |
| Wisconsin | 271 | |
| Minnesota | 240 | |
| Tennessee | 209 | |
| Michigan | 190 | |
| Colorado | 163 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
7,100 of these are people and 717 are organisations, so 9% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2022, and 4,858 registered in the last five years, 62% of the current population.
That is a fast-growing code. A population where a large share registered recently is either a genuinely expanding field or a category NPPES added late, and the taxonomy definition above usually tells you which.
Where the practices are
By practice-location city. City counts are noisier than state counts, because a large employer files one address for many providers.
- MILWAUKEE, WI165
- HOUSTON, TX137
- AKRON, OH103
- CLEVELAND, OH101
- COLUMBUS, OH82
- CINCINNATI, OH80
- CHICAGO, IL77
- MEMPHIS, TN66
- DAYTON, OH64
- INDIANAPOLIS, IN59
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Driver most often carry these secondary taxonomies as well. This is the closest thing the registry has to a map of which specialties overlap in practice, and it is not published anywhere else.
| Also listed | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Homemaker | 108 | 1.4% |
| Non-emergency Medical Transport (VAN) | 100 | 1.3% |
| Personal Care Attendant | 90 | 1.2% |
| Private Vehicle | 77 | 1.0% |
| Adult Companion | 73 | 0.9% |
| Home Health Aide | 66 | 0.8% |
| Contractor | 64 | 0.8% |
| In Home Supportive Care Agency | 38 | 0.5% |
Looking up a specific provider
These counts come from the monthly NPPES file. To check one provider, use their NPI: the lookup reads the live registry and shows whether the identifier is still active, which the monthly file cannot tell you about the last few weeks.
Counts from npidata_pfile_20050523-20260712.csv, built 2026-08-09. Primary taxonomy only, deactivated identifiers excluded.